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While Google introduces its new Chrome OS (which I'm hearing will be widely available in one year?  Did I mishear that?), IBM announced 10 new products today to help companies using IBM System z mainframe technology.
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To Cloud or Not to Cloud: IT Vendors Ponder the Question
Gordon Haff
Arms merchant or army? That's a fundamental question for vendors in the cloud computing space. Do they just sell their tooling to any and all comers, who then become the actual purveyors of hosted infrastructure, developer platforms, and software? Or do they offer their own cloud-based services, perhaps even keeping much of their technology in-house for competitive advantage?
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Groups Join Fight to Keep Big Brother Offline
Don Reisinger
Much has been made over the possibility of the U.S. government spying on Web users. There is a fear that through advanced technology, loopholes in federal regulations, and sheer gall, government officials will engage in acts that put the U.S. citizenry at risk. But whether or not the government is actually engaging in any activities online that puts its intentions into question is up for debate.
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Banks Cooperate for Better Risk Analytics
Mary E. Shacklett
With the value of toxic assets on the rise, large U.S. and European banks face many challenges on the road to recovery. Sharing key information may help these firms effectively track the way forward.
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How to Score, Not Bore, With Web Newsletter Graphics
Dan Cypra
A picture is worth a thousand words, or so the old saying goes. So understanding how to use images in e-newsletters effectively is quite important. Here are a few tips to ensure that your images in email newsletters work to your advantage.
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Tom Nolle
Total Telephony Transcends Telepresence
11|20|09   |   2:11   |   2 comments

The problem with telepresence is that it's not universally accepted, because video calling isn't. While we can all do video calling, we also apparently worry too much about how we look. If we want HD telepresence in our future, we have to dress down, mess up our hair, and dive into our online life.
Full Nelson
SanFran.gov
11|19|09   |   8:51   |   No comments

Fritz has an exclusive talk with the mayor and CTO of San Francisco about that city's latest e-government efforts.
Robert D. Atkinson
America Has Much to Learn About Digital Piracy
11|18|09   |   2:09   |   No comments

The US loses about $20 billion a year on pirated software, movies, and music. But public policy can help stem the tide of digital theft. For example, France has recently passed a 'three strikes and you’re out' law, whereby if after two warning letters an individual continues to download pirated software then his Internet access will be cut off. US policy makers should consider adopting similar policies.
Reiter's Block
Tweeting for Customer Support
11|18|09   |   2:20   |   No comments

When Reiter gets incensed over incompetent Verizon FiOS order-taking and support, he broadcasts it via Twitter. Did it do any good? How should your company offer Twitter support? Watch this for all the answers.
Not Dr. Phil
Internet & TV in Perfect Harmony?
11|16|09   |   2:22   |   3 comments

A new set-top offers an Internet experience without screwing up what we like about TV.
TeleGraham
Whence Telcos?
11|16|09   |   2:29   |   1 comment

The programmable Web, open APIs, and cloud-based services will fundamentally change orthodox telcos, and they need to decide what they are really good for in this new world: It's not necessarily what you might think, according to one of the world's biggest telcos.
Tom Nolle
Meatballs & Monetization
11|16|09   |   2:00   |   2 comments

Meatballs aren't an obvious source of monetization for the Internet, but Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs may well be just that, and might also represent a new dynamic in the complex world of Internet content delivery.
Full Nelson
Financial Service Transformation: Part 3
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11|13|09   |   2:17   |   7 comments

In order for banks to grow, they'll first have to start by retaining their standing client bases. To do this will require better customer service and more transparency. Banks are meeting these needs through more automated commodity services and mobile banking applications.
Sweeney Blog
Microsoft's Relevance in the Windows 7 Era
11|13|09   |   2:17   |   3 comments

The release of Microsoft's newest OS raises the question of the company's relevance in an era when Google dominates applications and search, and Apple runs circles around Redmond with its gadgets and user interfaces.
what.the.ferraro
LinkedIn Takes a Step Away From Professionalism
11|12|09   |   2:10   |   12 comments

LinkedIn partners with Twitter to incorporate Tweets into its status updates. So much for a professional network.
Full Nelson
Financial Service Transformation: Part 2
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11|12|09   |   2:21   |   No comments

Data is at the heart of any financial services firm, but analyzing that data in real time, and making decisions and predictions based on that data, is where the future is – whether that is customer data, trading data, or even risk management data.
Full Nelson
Financial Service Transformation: Part 1
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11|11|09   |   2:22   |   No comments

Financial services companies are focused on modernizing and consolidating their core applications. The goal is to provide a holistic customer view, become more agile, and offer new products quickly, in a personalized way. SOA is one key building block of this transformation.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The All-Seeing 'Net: Part 2
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11|11|09   |   2:27   |   2 comments

In theory it’s now possible to build a monitoring network that can listen to every conversation on the Internet simultaneously. In practice, there aren’t enough people on the planet to make sense of the data. But that’s about to change.
Tom Nolle
Stop Raining on the Cloud, Google!
11|10|09   |   2:18   |   No comments

Cloud computing is being dampened by the lack of local application support for offline use. Google's partnership with open-source should encourage it to build tight integration between Google Docs and OpenOffice, and thus boost the cloud and counter Microsoft at the same time.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The All-Seeing 'Net: Part 1
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11|10|09   |   2:00   |   No comments

The state of the art in network monitoring has advanced to the point that there are devices available that tap into Internet communications and listen in to the traffic via ultra-high-speed packet capture at full 10-Gbit/s line rate – which was inconceivable even a few years ago. What does this mean for Internet users?
The Incredible Hultquist
Tweet Less, Get More Clicks
11|9|09   |   2:24   |   No comments

Evidence shows that you can tweet too much. Sites and services like Twitter and Facebook are a good place to reach your audience, but think quality over quantity.
John Soat
Internet Anonymity: A Gray Area
11|6|09   |   2:45   |   4 comments

Is there such a thing as complete anonymity on the Internet? It is something of a philosophical question, but the consensus among experts seems to be 'No.' However, there are degrees of anonymity, which might be more practical for most people – and more necessary than ever before.
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The New Information Divide: Part 3
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11|6|09   |   1:46   |   No comments

A digital content market is emerging. Only two things are known about it: the first is that at some point the Internet will primarily become a paid network. The second known factor is that there are innumerable variables in the digital content market that have yet to be worked out. It’s not known, for example, exactly how users will pay for content (micropayments, subscriptions, bartering of farm animals, other).
Tom Nolle
Net Neutrality & UFOs
11|5|09   |   2:20   |   2 comments

The government secrets of UFOs are hidden in Area 51, so where are the secrets of net neutrality hidden, Area 52? Nope, they're hidden in Paragraph 148 – and they're a lot more substantive than UFOs!
Steven Peterson
iPhone App Makes Sense of Public Transport
11|5|09   |   1:19   |   No comments

Routesy is an iPhone application that uses the phone’s GPS to let the user know where and when the next train or bus is coming. The application’s developer, Steven Peterson, talks about why a mobile application makes sense, especially given that this transportation information is already available on the Web.
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Slobbering Over the N900
11|4|09   |   2:41   |   11 comments

Techies have been going crazy over the pending release of Nokia's N900 cellular phone, which incorporates a newly revised touch-screen operating system. Reiter's got one. Is the craziness justified?
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The New Information Divide: Part 2
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11|4|09   |   2:19   |   4 comments

Bad news! By eliminating the world’s digital divide we’re likely to create a new divide: the information divide, where we end up creating a two-tier Internet where access to 'quality' content is controlled and charged for by mega-corporations, and the gulf between information haves and have-nots is entirely dependent on how much money they have. This is, of course, an almost exact inversion of the current situation on the Internet – where access is expensive and content is free.
Marissa Mayer
VP of Search Products & User Experience, Google
11|3|09   |   1:57   |   No comments

Google Search Honcha talks about the new options the company has added to its search service, including fripperies such as the 'Wonderwheel.'
what.the.ferraro
The Unimportance of Real-Time Search
11|2|09   |   1:36   |   6 comments

The big news at the Web 2.0 Summit was that Twitter partnered with Google and Bing, enabling the search engines to show Tweets in search results. This couldn't possibly be less interesting.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The New Information Divide: Part 1
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11|2|09   |   1:07   |   No comments

Good news! The cost of Internet infrastructure, services, and access devices has been plummeting at an accelerating rate over the last 10 years and will approach a point in the next 20 years where these technologies become so fantastically cheap that ubiquitous, low-cost, high-speed networks, storage, and access devices will effectively eliminate the digital divide for most of the world's population.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The Death of Anonymity: Part 4
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10|29|09   |   1:40   |   7 comments

In the final episode of this series about the death of Internet anonymity, Saunders describes how the Internet of the future will start to attain a level of intelligence that requires no human intervention. Scary.
TeleGraham
The Ins & Outs of the Net Neutrality Debate
10|29|09   |   2:28   |   2 comments

Net neutrality is pitting fuddy-duddy telco types against the hipster-doofus Web developer brigade. What are telcos going to do with all the DPI and policy gear they've been so busy deploying over the past year? And whose side should Internet users be on?
Aneesh Chopra
Federal CTO of the US
10|28|09   |   01:06   |   4 comments

Aneesh Chopra talks about how President Obama's administration plans to tackle the digital divide.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The Death of Anonymity: Part 3
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10|28|09   |   1:35   |   4 comments

What can users today do to protect their online privacy? The simplest and most obvious option is to not use the Internet – at all. However, once all digital information is consolidated over the Internet, trying to protect digital identity by simply unplugging from the Internet becomes impossible – a fact that has manifest implications for civil liberties, Saunders says.
Singer at C-Level
Bing + Twitter: Wrestling a Tweety Fire Hose
10|27|09   |   2:33   |   2 comments

Now that Bing has struck a deal with Twitter, its search service will have to process a tsunami of Tweets, many of which are worthless junk. Stefan Weitz, director with Bing Search, explains to Michael Singer how his service will make sense of the Twitter mayhem to provide relevant results to end users and enterprises.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The Death of Anonymity: Part 2
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10|27|09   |   2:08   |   8 comments

By 2011 the number of Internet-connected sensors will exceed 1 trillion, making your chances of doing anything or going anywhere unnoticed pretty much zero. Saunders talks about how the 'sensortization' of the Internet is eliminating the traditional divide between online and offline populations.
Singer at C-Level
Inside the Bing/Twitter Deal
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10|26|09   |   1:43   |   3 comments

Bing, Microsoft’s search service, has struck a deal with Twitter. Here Stefan Weitz, director with Bing Search, talks through how the deal will work from a technical perspective, and what’s in it for users.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The Death of Anonymity: Part 1
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10|26|09   |   1:29   |   13 comments

The 20th Century Internet was characterized by the ability to interact with other people and information on the Internet largely without anyone knowing who you were. The Internet of this century, conversely, will be defined by identity. Saunders explains how Internet users are unwittingly contributing to the demise of the anonymous Internet.
Robert D. Atkinson
Americans’ Views of Internet Behavioral Targeting
10|23|09   |   2:04   |   1 comment

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans don’t like behavioral targeting on the Internet, even when it’s done anonymously. But the poll is seriously flawed in that it did not ask Americans about the tradeoffs involved. If we are to make good public policy with regard to the Internet and privacy, it’s important to have a debate that explores all aspects of the issue. This poll failed to do that.
what.the.ferraro
Why Wi-Fly?
10|22|09   |   1:57   |   13 comments

The three main problems with using in-flight Internet.
Sweeney Blog
GM/eBay Trial to Sell Cars Online Bites the Dust
10|21|09   |   2:07   |   4 comments

GM has pulled the plug on a trial with eBay to sell cars online, underscoring GM's feeble attitude to the Web and ecommerce – and a lot of defensiveness where dealers are concerned.
Singer at C-Level
Call Centers in the Cloud?
10|20|09   |   1:11   |   3 comments

Will cloud computing be the next best answer to building virtual call centers? Vertical industries such as retail and computer services could reap significant benefits from this emerging trend.
Thomas S. Kunz
Banks Get Social
10|19|09   |   1:32   |   1 comment

The PNC Financial Group is using social networking for outreach, product development, customer segmentation, branding, and more. It has also developed an iPhone-based virtual wallet application for Gen Y customers.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The Coming Internet Bubble: Part 2
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10|16|09   |   3:38   |   18 comments

How do you recognize an Internet bubble when you see one? Saunders explains how all bubbles have four symptoms in common – and takes a swipe at Google and Twitter into the bargain.
Tom Nolle
So Many Ads, So Few Clicks?
10|15|09   |   1:59   |   6 comments

Some recent research shows that 8% of Internet users generate 85% of ad click-throughs. There are three possible reasons for this, and they go from bad to worse. Together, they show that we need to know more about Internet advertising.
Full Nelson
Personal Mobile TV Makes Its Debut
10|14|09   |   2:28   |   7 comments

Mobile TV is everywhere, and yet, nowhere. Nobody uses it – because the handsets aren't good, the pricing is too high, and the coverage is not good enough. But Qualcomm's FloTV Personal TV aims to change all of that.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The Coming Internet Bubble: Part 1
Part 1 of 2   |   See complete series
10|14|09   |   1:54   |   16 comments

The sky is falling! And in other news, Saunders explains why he’s predicting a second Internet bubble – this one based around the current craze for social media.
TeleGraham
China's Broadband Revolution
10|13|09   |   2:36   |   1 comment

China is investing heavily in fiber to the premises to propel itself into the world broadband Internet first division. What's it deploying, and what's it going to do with all that bandwidth?
Not Dr. Phil
How Do You Measure Openness?
10|9|09   |   2:25   |   5 comments

Verizon is making a big noise about making its wireless network open, but how will we measure if they've been successful? Do we count devices? Applications? Or just take their word for it?
Steve Saunders' Outernet
Global Internet Growth: Part 2
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10|9|09   |   2:28   |   No comments

Saunders predicts the decline and fall of America’s Internet empire, and explains how the Internet of the future will be multi-lingual as well as multi-national.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
Global Internet Growth: Part 1
Part 1 of 2   |   See complete series
10|7|09   |   1:24   |   4 comments

Saunders explains how Internet users in North America are already vastly outnumbered by those in the rest of the world – a situation which is only set to accelerate.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
Welcome to 2029
10|6|09   |   2:01   |   4 comments

It is 20 years since the invention of the World Wide Web, and the Internet has changed beyond recognition since then. Steve Saunders peers into the future to predict what the Web will look like in another 20 years time – and he doesn’t like what he sees.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
Interview With the Secretary General of the ITU
9|28|09   |   7:11   |   No comments

Steve Saunders talks with the Secretary General of the ITU, Dr. Hamadoun Touré, about the digital divide, and how innovation and profit are driving forces in improving the developing world
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